Description California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) wants you to get your kicks on Route 66 -- and on their other highways, as well. Caltrans designs, constructs, maintains, and operates the Golden State's highway system's 50,000 miles of roadways. It oversees a variety of programs in areas including highway and mass transportation, aeronautics, transportation planning, and administration. Caltrans also provides assistance for about 400 public-use airports, offers inter-city rail services (alone and with Amtrak), and promotes the use of alternative modes of transportation. The agency, which has been active for more than 100 years, oversees an annual budget of more than $13 billion.
Caltrans has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 848 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Caltrans employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).
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Overall, 81% of employees would recommend working at Caltrans to a friend. This is based on 847 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
68% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Caltrans as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Caltrans.